Word: artfulness
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Borrowed by Director Roland J. McKinney of the Baltimore Museum of Art were 149 pieces representing virtually the entire range of Maya civilization from 1 A.D. to 1541 A.D. The Aztecs, whose beautiful city of Tencchtitlàn was razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with...
...lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French Army. In 1921 he landed in Mexico and went straight to work with the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors which, with Rivera as its gun-toting maestro, was then remaking Mexican art. Of what he found in Mexico he wrote...
Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...
Like Mexican oil (see p. 61), Mexican art is a commodity in which U. S. citizens take considerable interest. Those who want to get oil out of Mexico are having a tougher & tougher time. Those who want to see or buy Mexican art are having it easier & easier. In San Francisco, Detroit, Manhattan and Hanover, N. H., distinguished murals have been painted by Artists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Into Mexico City, where there are more & better Mexican paintings, the Inter-American Highway running south from Laredo, Tex., has piped thousands of U. S. tourists since its opening...
...Masters of Europe. Between 1910 and 1920, when Rivera and fellow Mexicans quit trying to paint like third-rate Spaniards, they claimed as a vital part of their tradition the Maya Indian culture which flourished before the Spanish conquest. But if Maya sculpture and design became art to modern Mexicans, they remained archeology to most of the rest of the world. Last week the first big U.S. exhibition of Maya relics as objects of art was assembled in Baltimore...